In the story “Am I Blue?”, Alice Walker’s use of language rejects speciesism. Walker uses personal pronouns to talk about Blue throughout the whole story. When Blue wanted apples, “...he would stand very still just by the apple tree, and when one of [them] came out he would whinny, snort loudly, or stamp the ground” (Walker 4). Walker refers to Blue as he/him and describes his reaction to his feelings at the sight of Walker's family members coming towards the apple tree. The author's goal is to make the readers realize that animals are just like them through the pronouns. Blue was able to…